I’m pretty sure that’s not how we both read it.
“I’m 302 years old. I’ve had many masters. I’ve fulfilled wishes for every one [no comment on how the wishes turned out]. But I’m patient. (Glare) I will hear you say I wish, and I’ll be ready.”

The nature of wishing is always cautious, especially when it involves at least a pair of different mindsets. Like the saying, “Too many chefs spoils the soup,” collaborations sometimes leads to alternative outcomes than the individuals’ intentions.

From what we’ve already seen from Jean when “she” just copied everything of that Korean spy or how “she” made the “General Lee” disappeared without knowing it was a car and got “her” own body hijacked from “her” own magic while not knowing the taboo of it, she didn’t have to know everything or next to nil about the contents “her” magic can affect. Sometimes the magic just wills things by itself, even with the source genie guiding it. Like our own organs, they’re a part of us but we can’t fully control what they do.

To be fair, people tend to say that word combo very much without a lot of thought into it. Andy might end up “wishing” something without meaning to use his wishes.

But remember, Keiichi basically wished for “A woman like you to always be with me” it just happened to be that Belldandy was the closest example; if it had been say, Urd, the story would have been quite different.

there have been thirteen ‘recessions/depressions’ since the Great Depression from 1929-1933. All of them ranging from several months to a year. This could be the tail end of the 1949 or the middle of the 1953 recession.

When those older people refer to the Great Depression they are usually talking about a period of between 1929 to 1940. The 1929 is where the stock market crashed and the entire economy fell apart officially. Unofficially the US Economy had already collapsed in the 1920 to 1929 with farm forecloses and such things as that. So for most people in the United States, this Great Depression lasted about 20 years or so and 1929 stock market only made it officially a Great Depression for everyone in this country.

World War II was considered the officially end of the Great Depression as the United States tooled up to fight World War II. After World War II, transferred much of the War manufacturing back to civilian uses again, so that the United States didn’t go back into a Great Depression again.

Don’t mean to call you out on it. Editing is a *tough* job and something is always going to slip through the cracks. I’m always terrified that the moment I point out something wrong, I’ll end up making a mistake while doing so (wiki Muphry’s Law (and /that/ is not a typo)).

Though now that I think about it, I don’t think there’s an established rule regarding freed genies in the JB continuity. Can such a thing even happen? If Neil had used one of his “official” wishes to free Jeanie, would that have reverted her to Jean, or left her as a female genie with no totem? I’m honestly not sure.

If the totem ‘has to have’ a genie associated with it, and Jean(n)ie became one from holding an open totem, wishing that Rouyaa was free might result in whichever one is holding the bottle becoming the replacement!

In the Dancing Gods series by Chalker, there was a lamp that held a genie and if a person made a second wish (even if accidentally) without giving the lamp away, /they/ became the genie of the lamp instead….

Reminds me of a comic I saw on DeviantArt recently. It involved a cursed genie bottle, where the master’s wishes actually get applied to the genie, and then the master becomes the genie. And the genie is, of course, inherently female. 🙂

She’s got a very VERY good point. They’ll say something that’ll hurt them. Best to get the wishes over with, and maybe find a way to keep her around to get to know her. And you know, find a way to free her from the bottle so Jean can later find it and become Jeanie. Otherwise… You’ve created a Time Paradox!

You can always wish for some opportunities you normally wouldn’t have to come your way. Perhaps wishing to know which stocks would be best for short and long term investment or even which sports teams will win. Little mundane things no one would bat an eye at and think you’re just lucky.

That’s the exact same vibe I got. Other commenters took her tone to be much more sinister than our interpretation, though. It remains to be seen what the “correct” interpretation of this conversation will be…

Also, you never specified how long your life will be. Although genies in this series are not allowed to kill somebody, they can put the person in a highly dangerous situation where death is likely yet not inevitable (e.g. drop them in the middle of Antarctica with no supplies, two hundred miles away from any living thing bigger than bacteria).

1) the future is undecided normally. But by seeing the future you now create destiny. All that you see is destined to happen and for some reason it’s always bad (because destiny wise it’s easier to fulfil the conditions for bad things to happen) congrats you are an evil future camera. Every lottery prediction you make is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and it happens every time.

2) I’m not very imaginative on trees but Triffids are close enough to a tree right? Uh oh..

3) you’ve just destroyed various Eco systems. A desert is filled with life too and you’ve killed thousands of unique species. Earth is at a delicate balance. Bring water to one area you take it away from another. By specifying desire in one area you melt the ice caps.

Am I the only one who would get really curious at this point about WHY the genies are granting wishes? What sort of duty are they bound to? Can the be freed? Do they have their own will?
I would totally be asking that stuff if I were them.

There could be many reasons but I suspect it’s to gain favour with the genie lords and see even greater realms beyond Earth. Being a genie to them might be seen as an honour. Perhaps some even genuinely want to help mortals but are constrained by the wishes.

I do wonder why they are not taking more care of mortals who end up as genies but I’m sensing a lack of enpathy amongst the long lived ones. They look human but we have to remember they are not. Jean will probably end up the same in a few hundred years.

Marscaleb, We have all said that person is operating according to human nature on many events and think nothing of it. Now Jeanie has a Genie nature to her and yes she does fight against that new nature of hers, because, she doesn’t want to be a Genie. But, over time Jeanie is starting to settle down in her new roll of being a Genie and is at least on some level starting accept that she is in fact a female Genie.

But, within those boundaries, Genie do have there own personalities and self will on some level, but, they are bound by some Genie code that they have to operate under. But, how they grant those wishes, is purely up to them and if you have pissed off Genie, “Look out”.